Africa

Final week, the customs authorities introduced that they'd seized a number of tonnes of unauthorized medicine, value greater than 1.5 billion CFA francs (nearly 2.3 million euros). A file seizure close to the border with Gambia. A number of operations of the identical sort have been carried out in current months. The Affiliation of Pharmacists in Senegal condemns a "lack of political will" to fight…

Britain introduced on Sunday, Might 13, sanctions towards two members of the Libyan Kaniyat militia and its leaders, perpetrators of significant human rights abuses and abuses in the town of Tarhouna, 80 km from Tripoli the place a number of mass graves have been found. London has launched the militia and its two leaders "a freezing and journey ban", stated the British International Secretary.…

Thirty years in the past, on Might 15, 1991, the well-known Malian author Amadou Hampâté Bâ, creator of Amkoullel, the Fulani Baby, died in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The muse that bears his identify organizes on this event conferences and debates as regards to his work and his reminiscence. She additionally launched into an intensive mission to digitize convention notes, correspondence or varied writings by…

Ace Magashule challenges his exclusion from the party in court. It was stated by his party which intends to distance itself from its secretary general who is accused of corruption. With the opportunity to recover his chair at money laundering at the end of his trial. But for Ace Magashule, accepting this repeal is out of the question. He continues his counterattack and settles accounts with President…

The Ivorian prime minister spent a few days in hospital in France this week following a first operation in Paris last week. A medical stay where the authorities have kept quiet and which has caused some concern in a country that in a short time has lost two prime ministers gradually. as reported from Abidjan, Pierre…

On Friday afternoon, 14 May, the Senate examined behind closed doors the request for the waiver of the immunity of former Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo and rejected it. The senators considered that the referral to the Advocate General to the Constitutional Court was troubled by irregularities. The former prime minister returned to the DRC last weekend to defend himself, he says. He is accused by…

The 117th Friday demonstration ended on Might 14 with many arrests. A dozen journalists had been arrested, 4 of whom are nonetheless being held by borderless journalists, together with Khaled Drareni, who has develop into an emblem of press freedom in Algeria. The Algerian authorities crack down exhausting, lower than a month earlier than the election to the legislature.…

Final Tuesday at RFI, Nigerian Inside Minister Alkache Alhada confirmed that discussions would quickly happen with the Algerian authorities on the migration difficulty. Specifically, to handle the difficulty of the systematic deportation of migrants from Algeria to Niger. These migrants are launched in the midst of nowhere and must stroll 15 km to achieve the Niger border. Testimony.…

The primary season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL), a pan-African basketball league, takes place from Could 16 to 30 in Kigali, following a number of launches linked to Covid. Listed here are seven issues to find out about this distinctive competitors, created by the NBA and the Worldwide Federation (FIBA). That is the…

Mahamat Idriss Déby, head of the Transitional Army Council in Chad, is on an official go to to Nigeria on Friday, Could 14. The son of former Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno was obtained at the top of the morning by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on the Presidential Palace in Aso Rock. as reported from Lagos, Liza…